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Story Writing Prompt: Getting Your Characters Out of Their Comfort Zone
Following on from this weekend's World Cup football drama, which took everyone out of their comfort zones, I'm sharing some story writing prompts here from the novella-in-flash.com blog - different ways to get your story characters out of their comfort zones… without...
Forthcoming Workshop: ‘Managing the Inner Critic’
(online, via Zoom, Saturday 29th July, 15.00-17.30 UK time) A quick announcement that I'm offering a new workshop in a couple of weeks' time: it's aimed at writers, artists, musicians, freelancers, facilitators - and creative practitioners of all kinds: 'Managing the...
And… Two More Awards??
I guess this is the moment when I have to wheel out the creaky old joke about the buses arriving all at once? I rewrote my planned blogpost this week, because my craft guide Unlocking the Novella-in-Flash: from Blank Page to Finished Manuscript (2022), first on...
Next Generation Indie Book Awards 2023
I hadn't expected to have further news to share about my craft guide Unlocking the Novella-in-Flash: from Blank Page to Finished Manuscript (2022), so soon after my most recent blogpost. However, I'm thrilled to say that this book has now received recognition in a...
Reader Views Literary Awards 2023
I'm pleased to announce that my craft guide Unlocking the Novella-in-Flash: from Blank Page to Finished Manuscript, published in 2022 by Ad Hoc Fiction, has been announced as a Winner in the Reader Views Literary Awards 2023 - gaining the Silver Award for...
Review by John Brantingham
I don't think I've read many reviews like this one by John Brantingham before. I love how he blends memoir, nature writing, philosophy, literary criticism and art criticism seamlessly into a single piece of writing - and an exquisite one, at that. That blend seems...
Do What the Boss Says: Stories of Family and Childhood – out now!
My new short-short story collection, Do What the Boss Says: Stories of Family and Childhood, is now available to order from Bamboo Dart Press at this link. Do What the Boss Says: Stories of Family and Childhood is a 40-page collection of 18 short-short stories...
Novella-in-Flash Craft Guide: now available to pre-order!
For the last couple of years I've been writing a book I hadn't originally planned to write. A publisher suggested the idea to me, I mulled it over and thought, OK yes, let's give it a go...Forthcoming from Ad Hoc Fiction in May 2022 is my completed novella-in-flash...
“Slouch to 5k” – Week 10 Activity – The Wow!
The final activity in the "Slouch to 5k" series is a chance to identify some goals for the weeks ahead. In the blogpost I share a simple device for maintaining momentum now that Slouch to 5k is over - a structure of "minimum" vs. "wow!" More at the link below... Week...